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...President to send polite greetings to every large gathering of U. S. Jews, Catholics or Protestants is a routine amenity usually executed by a White House secretary. But to the sist triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting during the past three weeks in Atlantic City, went no word, polite or otherwise, from Episcopalian Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week General Convention, winding up its affairs, came within an ace of reciprocating in kind...
...51st triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church got under way in Atlantic City last week, 10,000 people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin...
...train was a special from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, with three cars attached for Bustleton. This suburb, 17 miles from Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
...they don't." Dean McLauchlan and his colleagues agreed that a bishop's right to exercise his "godly judgment" means his right to offer advice-not to assume independent judicial functions. They also felt that Canon 42 is ambiguous and should be revised at the triennial General Convention of the Church in Atlantic City next week...
...motion. With better understanding they watched a female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first convention...